For decades, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder have been diagnosed from the outside in, through behavior, mood, and memory ...

People with bipolar disorder are more likely to have a co-occurring mental health diagnosis, meaning they have another ...

An analysis of DNA from millions of individuals has identified shared genetic pathways across psychiatric disorders, findings ...

An international collective of researchers is delivering new insights into why having multiple psychiatric disorders is the ...

It's not uncommon for a patient with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) to also have a tic disorder, or for someone with ...

Results also indicate how these genetics might affect a person’s biology to increase their risk of different mental ...

A global research team co-led by VCU expert Kenneth Kendler has produced the most comprehensive genetic map so far, identifying five families of disorders that show a high degree of overlap. An intern ...

A study suggests psychiatric disorders can share the same genetic signatures and that they may stem from shared biological mechanisms.

Analysis of more than one million people shows that mental-health disorders fall into five clusters, each of them linked to a ...

DSM diagnoses can be useful. But they can also pathologize normal emotions, and the line between "healthy" and "disordered" ...

More than 20% of Americans will be diagnosed with mental illness in their lifetimes. They will, that is, experience ...

The findings of this study could eventually improve how mental health conditions are diagnosed and treated, especially for ...